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- Stark was a major American Impressionist. He was one of the
Hoosier Group or Hoosier Five, along with T.C. Steele, Richard
Gruelle, William Forsyth and J. Ottis Adams. He was a native of
Indianapolis, Indiana, and studied in Cincinnati, Ohio, New York
City and Paris, France. He showed at the Paris Salon and worked in
New York, at the Denison Hotel
exhibit in Chicago, and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Upon returning to Indiana
in the 1890s, he exhibited and was a very influential teacher.
After World War I, he devoted his full attention to painting,
often working with Adams, a close friend.
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